Tag: beaujolais

The cult of natural wine elicits raw emotion among wine lovers, deeply polarising opinion between those who with one broad stroke dismiss the wines labelled as such as flawed by imperfections, and its disciples who evangelise over the vibrancy of such wines, embracing their unpredictability and funkiness as one would an unpasteurised farmhouse cheese. Jean-François Ganevat is an indisputable star of the natural wine movement, whose wines have an unpredictable and exciting wildness that sometimes needs a little taming, whence they become elemental and quite charming.

Today’s focus is on the Morgon 2014 of Beaujolais star Julien Sunier, and the Trousseau ‘Singulier’ 2014 from progressive Jurassian winemaking family Bénédicte & Stéphane Tissot. Both wines give compelling arguments for why these two oft overlooked regions should not be ignored.